{"id":399039,"date":"2025-11-23T11:47:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T11:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/399039\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T11:47:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T11:47:25","slug":"it-hurts-listening-to-whitney-houston-i-knew-her-so-well-mica-pariss-honest-playlist-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/399039\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It hurts listening to Whitney Houston \u2013 I knew her so well\u2019: Mica Paris\u2019s honest playlist | Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first song I fell in love with<\/strong>
God Will Open Doors by Walter Hawkins. I grew up on the Hawkins gospel family. They were my teachers. I was raised by my grandparents, and my auntie fell in love with the gospel sound and imported records from America \u2013 although my grandparents thought it was a bit too secular, even though it was gospel.<\/p>\n

The song I inexplicably know every lyric to <\/strong>For some reason, out of all his songs, Adore by Prince always speaks to me.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The first single I bought
<\/strong>Funkin\u2019 for Jamaica (NY) by Tom Browne from Red Records in Brixton, although I was so young I could hardly reach the counter.<\/p>\n

The best song to play at a party <\/strong>
Sex Machine by James Brown gets everybody up, and sends everybody nuts. It\u2019s one of those songs that cuts through everyone\u2019s musical taste.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The song I can no longer listen to<\/strong>
It really hurts listening to Greatest Love of All by Whitney Houston, because I knew her so well. It\u2019s funny, I don\u2019t feel that way about Prince\u2019s music. But anything by Whitney just destroys me.<\/p>\n

The best song to have sex to
<\/strong>Distant Lover by Marvin Gaye.<\/p>\n

The song I do at karaoke<\/strong>
If there\u2019s one song that gets people moving, it\u2019s Gimme Some More by Busta Rhymes. It\u2019s such a wicked tune, and you don\u2019t have to be a great singer. I go for the funky stuff and Busta\u2019s my boy.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The song I secretly like, but tell everybody I hate<\/strong>
I\u2019m always pretending to people I\u2019m a bit too past it to like Shake It Off by Taylor Swift. I\u2019m a grandmother, babe. And a soul singer. They\u2019re like: \u201cWhat the hell? Whatcha doing here?\u201d<\/p>\n

The song that makes me cry<\/strong>
Every time I hear I\u2019m Still Here by Dorinda Clark-Cole from the Clark Sisters \u2013 who are like the female Jacksons of the gospel world \u2013 I\u2019m in tears. That song always hits me.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The song that changed my life<\/strong>
What\u2019s Going On by Marvin Gaye. My dad played it to me in the car when I was around 12. I just remember looking at him and saying: \u201cI don\u2019t want to do gospel music for much longer, Dad. I want to do this kind of music.\u201d<\/p>\n

The song that gets me up in the morning<\/strong>
I always tell my band to practise Yatra-Ta by Tania Maria. I\u2019m very much into my Brazilian jazz and Latino. I love all that stuff, because my grandfather\u2019s Portuguese, so even though I\u2019m Jamaican, I have a big Latino influence. It\u2019s in the blood.<\/p>\n

The song I\u2019d like played at my funeral<\/strong>
Heaven, which Gary Barlow wrote for me for my new album. I\u2019d like Gary to sing it at my funeral, please.<\/p>\n

Mica Paris is working with Genaura Levagen<\/a>+ Smart Face Serum. She plays Watford Colosseum on 28 November<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first song I fell in love withGod Will Open Doors by Walter Hawkins. I grew up on…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":399040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[4345,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-399039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-texas","10":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115598854962285824","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}